I'm trying to use Umbraco's Member functionality in a stand-alone ASP.NET MVC site. I've included the dlls from Umbraco 6.1.6 in the MVC project.

It works fine as long as I use the Members functionality for validating and logging in users on my MVC site.

But when I want to get and set the custom properties on my MemberType, I can't seem to get access to those.

My web.config for the MVC site looks like this:

    <profile defaultProvider="UmbracoMemberProfileProvider" enabled="true" inherits="Business.Providers.MemberProfile">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="UmbracoMemberProfileProvider" type="umbraco.providers.members.UmbracoProfileProvider, umbraco.providers" />
      </providers>
    </profile>
    <membership defaultProvider="CustomMemberProvider" userIsOnlineTimeWindow="15">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="CustomMemberProvider" type="Business.Providers.CustomMemberProvider" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="false" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" defaultMemberTypeAlias="Ekspert" passwordFormat="Hashed" />
      </providers>
    </membership>
    <roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvider="UmbracoRoleProvider">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="UmbracoRoleProvider" type="umbraco.providers.members.UmbracoRoleProvider" />
      </providers>

My ProfileProvider has (among others) the following getter and setter:

        [SettingsAllowAnonymous(false)]
        public string description
        {
            get
            {
                var o = base.GetPropertyValue("description");
                if (o == DBNull.Value)
                {
                    return string.Empty;
                }
                return (string)o;
            }
            set
            {
                base.SetPropertyValue("description", value);
            }
        }

The custom Umbraco property alias is called "description" (in that casing). When I try to get the Profile for an Umbraco member of type "Ekspert", the decription method throws a NullReferenceException. I try to get the profile like this in my MVC controller (MemberProfile is my custom profile class):

MemberProfile mp = MemberProfile.GetUserProfile("myUser")

Also, I get the same profile from this call, whether the supplied username exists in Umbraco or not, indicating that some basic setting/connection to Umbraco is missing.

Does it have something to do with my controller not inheriting from UmbracoController and thus not having an UmbracoContext?